01-26-2019, 03:53 AM
Lew Zealand wrote:
[quote=p8712]
[quote=Lew Zealand]
I've done it on the PC side (works very well) and was planning to set up the same on my Mac but then Apple blocked Nvidia GPUs in 10.13.3 IIRC, and I haven't returned to the idea.
I think it's a driver issue, more than anything. I'm going to stick with AMD, anyway. Glad to know it works well. Will be gaming on PC side, work on the mac side.
I gamed with it on the PC side with a dual core i7 NUC running the front end and later built a 6-core PC, putting the same GPU in the x16 slot. Short answer: you lose only about 30% of your frames per second on a midrange GPU (GTX 1060, same level as AMD RX 580) by using it as an external GPU with 1/3 the CPU cores. Not a bad compromise, all things considered.
Thanks for the feedback!